New Report: Starting on Opioids

In 2016, many Ontarians were newly prescribed high-dose opioids, according to a new report by Health Quality Ontario. This despite evidence that those who receive prescription opioids at higher than recommended doses are several times more likely to overdose compared to those on lower doses.

What do Patients Experience as They Transition from Hospital to Home?

We want to hear from patients, families and other caregivers about the experience transitioning from hospital to home, to inform a number of initiatives to better support people as they recover at home after a hospital stay.

Help us spread the word to patients and caregivers within your community that we want to hear about their experiences.

Please encourage them to complete this survey or participate in a discussion group.

Long-Term Care: Updated Data Available

Updated publicly reported data for long-term care homes in Ontario is now available on our website. See wait times for admission to long-term care homes and other measures of long-term care home quality in Ontario.

Long-term care physicians will also receive their updated MyPractice: Long-Term Care report, by the end of the month, with data on how their
practice is doing. If you’re not already subscribed, sign-up by February 28, 2018 to receive your confidential report in April 2018.

We Want to Hear from You: Draft Funding and Health Technology Assessment

Essential tremor is the most common type of movement disorder. In our newest Health Technology Assessment, we studied the effectiveness and impact of magnetic resonance-guided focused ultrasound neurosurgery to address essential tremors.

Read the draft recommendation and share your thoughts by January 30, 2018.

Quality Improvement Spotlight: Long-Term Care

Co-Leading Discussions on the Residents' Bill of Rights

Learn how staff and residents at the Cambridge Country Manor Long-Term Care Home co-develop and co-facilitate education sessions about the Residents’ Bill of Rights – on Quorum, our online community to support quality improvement.

Blog: Putting a Quality Lens on Health Technology

A growing body of evidence from Canada, the U.S. and the United Kingdom is providing compelling evidence of improved quality outcomes as a result of using health information technologies (HIT), and Health Quality Ontario has identified HIT as an enabler of quality care...